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Is Finding Part Time Work In IT Unrealistic?
I like my current job writes "Having worked full-time in IT for the past 12 years, I would really like to work less and focus on other goals and priorities in my life. I asked my current employer and was shot down. It seems like everyone I know in IT works full-time except for entry-level help desk staff. Striking out on my own seems to be the only way to control the ball and chain around my ankle. However, my experience with independent consulting is a 'feast or famine' situation, with work coming all at once, thus making part-time impossible, or the other extreme (which is even more likely). Is part-time work a pipe dream in IT? Maybe a career in toilet cleaning is calling me."
One thing people have to remember. There is no such thing as friendship. That is a nice illusion brought to you by advertisers around Christmas to buy their junk. In reality, if you are buying the rounds, sure people will deign to hang around, but the second you stop earning a paycheck, they will look for someone else at once. This sounds petty and materialistic, but that is how the world works. There is no such thing as a person who likes another unless there is some possibility material gain is involved, be it wealth, sex, or drugs.
Pack your own parachute. Even your best "friends" will not hesitate to throw you under the bus somehow if they could earn a buck doing so. Its far better to have cash in the bank (or even better, gold in your safe or mattress) than "friends" who will dump you the second you get a pink slip or if your business is in danger of failing.
Always remember. Get the stuff, friends will follow.
Actually, web programming really is at the bottom of the programming food chain. Sorry.
- not the original AC